Blog Wars

For just as Krugman was declaring his love for his blog commenters last January, people started posting serious rebuttals of Krugman’s standard claims about economics. These commenters were not obviously Republican stooges. They were not obviously members of “the political class.” They were not obvious ideologues.

Rather, the posters simply knew some economic science and how jobs are created and economies grow, perhaps because they were members of “the productive class.” And they came prepared to support their rebuttals of Krugman’s ideology and his singular policy prescription by facts and peer-reviewed economic science.

For six months, they made Krugman’s blog one of the more informative and interesting places to hear economics debated. In part, this was because they gave Krugman a serious run. Their posts were long, near the 5,000-character limit set by the New York Times. They were reasoned. They were knowledgeable. They carried citations to economic science literature that one might expect in a Ph.D. dissertation.

16 Responses to Blog Wars

It’s gotta be hard on the bloke, y’know. Obama kaput, Keynes kaput, warmening kaput. His intellectual universe is suddenly a cemetery. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. There was supposed to be Hope, Change and Hopeychange.

He did the usual haunts. Spent time on O’Brien’s show propagandizing for the the Government and stimulus spending., which O’Brien lapped up.

Joe forgot to mention that even though he’s now sounding the death siren for capitalism he was one of the two advisers in the Clinton Administration that set the path to ruination with Fred and Fannie.

I suppose he’s back in his nursing home in NYC by now, taken in the fees by sprouting worthless crap and infecting the public’s mind here with shitty economics and insane assertions.

That is very funny. Most people just don’t like being disagreed with. Despite the fact that space on a blog is unlimited and the marginal post of a post or comment is zero, even someone as self confident as Krugman chases off dissenters.
I’m a bit surprised that this should be his call. The NYT hosts it and most papers profess a belief in dialogue so I would expect that they make the rules.